Beginning Spinning with Julie Wilson
Take home your first skein of spun yarn from this beginning spinning class in only 3 hours. You will learn to treadle, spin, draft, ply and wind handspun onto a niddy-noddy. You will use a Lendrum spinning wheel for the class; wheels will be available for sale and the end of the class.
Date: 1-13, 1-14 and 1-15 (Classes on Friday & Saturday are full)
Location: Jehovah Raah Farm Vendor Booth
Cost: $45.00
Material Fee: $15.00
Times:2:00pm-5:00pm also 10:00am-1:00pm
Total Cost: $60.00
Flax Plant to Linen Yarn with Cassie Dickson
Learn 18th century methods of processing the flax plant to linen yarn by using the actual tools; flax brake, scutching knife, and hackles. Growing and retting the plant, dressing a distaff and spinning the fiber will be covered. Intermediate spinning skills are required.
Needed Supplies:
- Spinning wheel or spindle (distaff
will be provided) - Bandana or painters mask
- Folder for handouts
- A plastic container that can hold a
1/4th cup of water - Pocket comb
- Small terry cloth towel
- A few zip lock bags to take flax samples
home and 1 small garbage bag
Date:1-15
Time: 1:30-4:30
Class: $45.00
Material Fee: $25.00
Total: $70.00
Spinning: The Draws with Nancie McCraw
Take your spinning to the next step and try a different draw. We are going to explore different styles of drafting and draws for spinning and discuss how to match thedrafting method to the fiber preparation and the yarn you want. We cover the Short draws, short forward and short backward, spinning from the fold, and a few different long draw methods, pre-drafting and double drafting. If time permits we will look at manipulating colors with our drafting techniques.
Date: 1-15-12
Location: TBA
Cost: $60.00
Material Fee: $15.00
Start Time: 1:00 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
Total Cost: $75.00
Tailspinning Class with Gail Johnston
Class Content: Learn to Tailspin Mohair Locks to use as is or to crochet/knit after finishing into a lovely scarf.
Age: 16 Years and Up
Materials: Bring Your Own Wheel or instructor can provide 4 Lady Bugs. If you do not have a wheel please contact Gail to secure a wheel for this class.
Date: 1-14-12
Location: TBA
Cost: $45.00
Material Fee: $35.00
Start Time: 1:00 PM
End Time: 4:00 PM
Total Cost: $80.00
Corespinning Art Yarns with Melissa Yoder Ricks
Corespinning is the foundational technique for many styles of art yarns as well as a great way to spin luxury fibers and textured batts in order to maximize their impact. Students will first learn the basics of corespinning a balanced yarn from a blended batt, the move on to corespinning with locks, and adding embellishments such as flowers and beads to your corespun yarns, and creating fluffy translucent corespun yarns.
Date:1-15
Time: 9:00am-1:00pm
Class: $60.00
Materials Fee: $25.00
Total: $85.00
Spin Control: Stripes, Ombre & Other Effects with Hand Dyed Fibers with Melissa Yoder Ricks
Evaluating hand dyed fibers to determine the best way to spin them to preserve the lovely colors that made them appealing. Spinning to create long sections of color in singles, navaho plying, and fractal spinning to create predictable ombre yarn will be covered in this hands-on class.
Minimum Age for Class: 16
Prerequisite Student Skills: able to spin and ply a balanced yarn
Students need to bring spinning wheel, at least three bobbins, lazy kate or bobbin rack. Also recommended: niddy-noddy or skeinwinder
Date: 1-13
Location: Vendor Booth
Cost: $45.00
Material Fee: $20.00
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
Total Cost: $65.00
Boucle & Beyond with Melissa Yoder Ricks
Class will cover three spinning techniques sometimes referred to as ‘boucle’: ‘spiral’ yarn classic boucle and loopy art boucle. Beyond boucle, students will also learn to spin ‘eyelash’ type yarns.
Minimum Age for Class: 16
Prerequisite Student Skills: able to spin and ply a balanced yarn
Students need to bring spinning wheel, at least two bobbins, lazy kate or bobbin rack. Also recommended: niddy-noddy or skeinwinder (optional)
Date: 1-14
Location: Vendor Booth
Cost: $45.00
Material Fee: $20.00
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
Total Cost: $65.00
Plying Around: Spinning Coils, Stacks & Halos with Melissa Yoder Ricks
These techniques come to life when you ply, but how the singles are spun is key. This class will cover how to spin thick and thin singles and novel ways to ply them to create tight stable coils, stacks and halos that won’t move around in your yarn. Tricks for using these yarns in your knitted projects will also be discussed.
Minimum Age for Class: 16
Prerequisite Student Skills:_able to spin and ply a balanced yarn
Students need to bring spinning wheel, at least two bobbins, lazy kate or bobbin rack. Also recommended: niddy-noddy or skeinwinder (optional)
Date: 1-14
Location: Vendor Booth
Cost: $45.00
Material Fee: $20.00
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 1:00 PM
Total Cost: $65.00
Spinning on a Charka with Eileen Hallman
Learn to spin cotton the easy way! (Anything is easy with the right tools; the charkha was designed specifically for spinning cotton.) Learn how to tune and maintain the charkha. We will also cover cotton types, preparations, and properties.
**With notice, I can rent charkhas for $15 to students who do not have them.**
Learning Objectives
1. Learn spinning terminology
2. Learn cotton fiber terminology
3. Understand the charkha
4. Understand the ergonomics of usage
5. Understand yarn terminology
6. Learn the long draw
7. Spin cotton effortlessly
8. Learn that all cotton is not created equal by spinning several types of cotton
9. Learn to ply for a center pull ball
Students should bring; Charkha or great wheel if they have one, Enthusiasm
Date: 1-13
Time:10:00am-2:00pm
Class:$60.00
Materials:$10.00
Total: $70.00
Charka Rental: $15.00
Begining Spindling with Nancie McCraw
Drop Spindles are the gateway to fiber addiction. They are inexpensive, portable and simple to operate. One you have mastered the spindle you will have learned the steps needed for spinning on the spinning wheel: drafting out fibers, twisting the fiber into yarn, plying, winding up and storing the spun yarn.
Date:1-14
Time: 3:00pm-6:00pm
Class: $45.00
Materials: $30.00 this includes spindle, fiber and cd to take with you.
Total: 75.00
Getting the yarn you want from the fleece you have with Robyn Josephs
Now that you can spin a continuous thread, come discover how to spin woolen and worsted yarns and everything in between. Putting your wheel’s tension and pulleys to work for you, learn diameter control from frog hair to bulky. Bring a wheel in good working order. Scotch tension is best for diameter control and we will work with what you bring. Bring 2oz of roving and 2oz of top. Fiber will be available from Friends and Fiberworks if you need to purchase roving.
Date: 1-13
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Class: $30.00
Total: $30.00
Raging Combs with Susan McFarland
Sharpen your fiber prep techniques. This class will help you work with many brands of combs hand held and 5 pitch. Take many varieties of fibers from Alpaca, wool long and short to merino and rabbit. See what works best for your fiber addition. See how the combs clean and straighten the fibers to make spinning easy. Bring combs if you have them. If not use ours. Bring fibers you wish to see work with combs or use ours. Students must bring your wheel.
Date: 1-14-12
Time: 12-2
Class: $30.00
Materials Fee: $12.00
Total: $42.00
Creative Carding & Fiber Prep with Melissa Yoder Ricks
Many creative yarns begin with creatively prepared fiber! In this hands-on class we will explore different ways to use a drum carder to create blended batts both wild and tame, as well as ways to use of a wool picker to prepare fiber for spinning, and a blending hackle to create blended roving from prepared fiber. Students will take home batts, ‘cloud’ and roving which they create in the class.
Students need to bring tools/supplies STUDENTS WHO OWN DRUM CARDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING THEM. A spinning wheel or spindle to test spin fibers and clean ‘ugly duckling’ fibers to transform and/or share with the class are weclome (optional).
Date: 1-15
Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm
Class: $45.00
Materials: $25.00
Total: $70.00
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